Colin Jost, the second-best-known Saturday Night Live personality from Staten Island — after Pete Davidson, of course — is hitting San Antonio for a night of laughs and looks behind the SNL curtain. At first glance, stand-up comedy might not seem to be entirely in Jost’s wheelhouse.
Those who missed Erykah Badu’s AT&T Center performance last week — or just can’t get enough her soulful sound — may want to pencil in this week’s performance by genre-defying singer José James. James plays The Espee on Wednesday on his On & On: José James Sings Badu tour, which focuses on his reinterpretations of the neo-soul queen’s […]
In the ’80s and ’90s, San Antonio visual artist James Cobb rode the rollercoaster of the then-booming gallery scene. Solo shows took him across the United States, and his works appeared in shows in Paris and Japan.
Recent changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), otherwise known as food stamps, could force thousands of Texans to go without food assistance. To reach a deal not to default on the federal debt, Congress voted to expand SNAP’s current work requirements to include adults aged 50 to 54. Those in that age range without […]
Shortly after 7 p.m. last Saturday, as the early voting results for District 1 city council runoff filed in, Councilman Mario Bravo knew that he’d lost — and by a sizable margin at that. “They’re saying I have a 2% chance,” a visibly disappointed Bravo told an elderly couple attending his watch party at Backyard […]
Texas’ Garrison Brothers Distillery is now selling a limited-edition collaborative whiskey with Clonakilty Distillery, a maritime outfit located along Ireland’s southwestern coast. The seven-year-old Irish single malt whiskey is initially matured in ex-bourbon barrels before being finished for seven months in Garrison’s Balmorhea barrels in the Lone Star State. Garrison Brothers operates from a small farm […]
An Austin ISD elementary school teacher maintains she was fired after posting a TikTok video about a meeting in which a school administrator complained about her teaching students about their legal and constitutional rights. On March 21, third-grade teacher Sophia DeLoretta-Chudy posted a now-viral video on the social media platform about that meeting with a […]
On June 19, 1865, Union general Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston and issued a proclamation freeing the town’s enslaved people, who were still being held in bondage despite the Confederacy’s surrender two months earlier. For many years now — long before it was made a national holiday in 2021 — Texans have celebrated this occasion […]
The North East ISD Board of Trustees this week approved an employee compensation package worth almost $35 million — the largest increase in staff salaries in more than two decades. “We’re looking for ways to offset the inflation that is impacting everyone,” NEISD Superintendent of Schools Sean Maika said in media statement.
Just five months opening, Southtown’s Leche de Tigre is already gaining serious regional attention. Texas Monthly featured the Peruvian cebichería in its July issue and praised it as one of San Antonio’s “most compelling new restaurants.” Executive Editor Patricia Sharpe and friends visited the restaurant and noshed on several versions of Peru’s much-loved national dish, cebiche.